Nina Turner Is Running to Join the Squad Nina Turner Is Running to Join the Squad
Can the Sanders surrogate win over her district without losing her supporters on the left?
Jun 28, 2021 / Feature / Joan Walsh
Diane Johnson’s Homecoming Diane Johnson’s Homecoming
In her new novel, the novelist returns to the United States to offer a self-conscious story of American fragmentation.
Jun 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld
Annette Gordon-Reed’s Personal History of Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed’s Personal History of Juneteenth
In her new book, Gordon-Reed reminds us that besides offering us origin stories the past can also provides us with a way to think about the present and future.
Jun 28, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Robert Greene II
Bill Barr’s Rehabilitation Tour Begins. Let’s Not Fall for It. Bill Barr’s Rehabilitation Tour Begins. Let’s Not Fall for It.
Democrats can’t let Barr off the hook for all the ways he abetted Trump’s lawlessness, even if he now calls some of it “bullshit.”
Jun 27, 2021 / Joan Walsh
Chauvin Is Sentenced to 22.5 Years. But Who Killed Winston Smith? Chauvin Is Sentenced to 22.5 Years. But Who Killed Winston Smith?
In early June, law enforcement in Minneapolis killed a 32-year-old Black man named Winston Smith, three miles from where George Floyd was murdered.
Jun 25, 2021 / Alyssa Oursler and Anna DalCortivo
Thoroughly Modern Milley Thoroughly Modern Milley
Critical Race Conditions. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of June 21.
Jun 25, 2021 / Steve Brodner
Warren Buffett Moves to Distance Himself From Bill Gates Warren Buffett Moves to Distance Himself From Bill Gates
The Oracle of Omaha just resigned from the Gates Foundation. But he’s still on the hook for billions in future donations to the troubled charity.
Jun 25, 2021 / Tim Schwab
#FreeBritney Is Damn Right #FreeBritney Is Damn Right
The law has failed Britney Spears and likely many others—young, old, often female. Now it’s time to change it.
Jun 25, 2021 / Elie Mystal
Toasting Our Destruction Toasting Our Destruction
Exploiting natural resources to extinction.
Susan Collins Sums Up Her Scorching Cynicism With a States’ Rights Defense of Voter Suppression Susan Collins Sums Up Her Scorching Cynicism With a States’ Rights Defense of Voter Suppression
The alleged moderate defends assaults on voting rights by claiming states should “determine which election rules work best for their citizens.”
Jun 25, 2021 / John Nichols